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NOODLE-CUTTER.

srncrrrcATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,275, datedseptember e, 189s.

'Appucanon tied April 2o, 1897. seria No. 632,924.. (No mean.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTHA J. NEUEN- scHwANDnR, a citizen of the UnitedStates, i and a resident of Vera Cruz, in the countyl of Wells and Stateof Indiana, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsinNooelle-Cutters; and I d o hereby declare the foli lowing to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame. i

My invention relates to improvements in noodle-cutters of the classwhich are operated as a hand device, and has for its object to provide asimple and inexpensive implement by means of which noodle-strips may bequickly and conveniently formed or cut from the dough.

To the accomplishment of this end my invention consists in a devicecombining certain novel details of construction, parts, and combinationand arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described,and specifically 'pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a top plan View of anoodle-cutter constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, aside view of the same, and Fig. 3 an enlarged detail plan view showingthe relation of the two sets of knives or cutters on their shafts.

Like numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the severalfigures of the drawings. A

The numeral l designates the handle, which may be made of any suitablematerial, as wood, and is provided with a hollow shank 2 and adetachable bolt 3, passing through a suitable transverse hole, the bolthaving a securing-nut 3a.

The knife-frames are two in number, each consisting of two separablearms havingeach' 1 ing the knives when they require resharpening orthorough cleansing. The frame cardle outward at opposite sides and bendforward, extending inpparallel lines beyond the rear set of knives andthen bend down a suitable distance, as at 6, terminating in socket ends9, which vreceive the ends of the shaft 7. The other frame, whichcarries the rear set of knives, consists of the arms 4 and 5, which areformed ysimilarly to the others, but narrower laterally and shorter, sothat the frame is free within the limits of the other frame, both beingon the same horizontal plane, but the bentdown extremities of the innerframe are shorter than those of the other to com pensate for adifference in the diameterI of the knives of the rear set on the shaft8, the latter being retained in the same manner as the other shaft insocket ends 0. The shaft 7 is the forward and, the shaft 8 the rear asthe device is operated. They are arranged parallel with each othertransversely to the line of motion, and are preferably prevented fromrotating by suitable means, as squared ends in squared sockets. 4Theframes are made of slightly-yielding or spring-like material. Each ofthe said shafts is provided with a series comprising a set ofdisk-shaped knives 10 and 1l, revolubly mounted thereon.

The knives are composed of any suitable material desired. The diameterof the knives is uniform in each set, but the diameter of thosecomposing the rear set is somewhat greater than that of those in theforward set, for reasons hereinafter explained. It would be difcult tocut the stripsof dough as narrow as might be desired in one operation orby one set of knives, for the reason that the knives would of necessitybe so close as to cause trouble through the dough becoming wedgedbetween them and the strips would thus bepicked up and torn. To obviatethis, I space the knives so that the cutting edges in both sets arev asfar apart as twice the width of the noodle desired, and one set ofknives is arranged so that the lines of the cutting edges will be midwaybetween the lilies of the cutting edges of the other set. The smallerknives are pushed in advance of the others, cutting out stripsl ofdouble width, which naturally lie fiat on the cuttingboard,

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Hence the finished noodle will havea width equal to one-half thedistance between two adjoining knives on either shaft. The knives of therear set are of large diameter', so that they Will more readily shearand split the strips cut by the forward set than would small disks, thelatt-er tending to push up the loose strips from the cutting-board, andthus split them irregularly.

It Will be observed that in providing two independent fram es which areslightly `elastic both sets of knives are readily kept in contact withthe table or cutting-board Without special care in maintaining thehandle in a horizontal position.

I am aware that rotary cutters of uniform diameter for various purposeshave been so arranged on parallel shafts that the cuttinglines of oneset of disks are between the cutting-lines of the opposite set of disks,and I therefore do not claim such construction broadly; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A hand implement for cutting noodles, and consisting of a handle, twoelastic frames secured to said handle and each frame having extremitiesadapted to receive and secure a shaft end, one of said frames being ofgreater length and width than the other, a transverse shaft detachablysecured at the said extremities of each of said frames and parallel onewith the other, a series of disk-knives revolubly mounted on each ofsaid shafts, the disks of one of said series being of greater diameterthan that of the disks composing the other of said series and the saiddisks having thc greater diameter being adapted to split the strips ornoodles formed by the disks of the opposite of said series of disks,substantially as shown and described.

2. AIn a hand implement for cutting noodles,

the combination of the handle having a hollow shank, the pair of elasticframes each consisting of two arms and detachabl y connected and securedin said hollow shank, one of said frames being of greater length thanthe other, a stationary shaft secured transversely at the extremities ofeach of said frames and parallel with each other, theseries of diskcutting knives of small diameter revolubly mounted on one of said shaftsand the series of disk'cutting-knives of large diameter revolublymounted on theother of said shafts and so arranged as to adapt them tosplit the noodle strips first formed by the series of vsmall disks,substantially as shown and described.

3. In a noodle-cutter for hand use, the combination of the handle l, theframes 4 5a and 4E 5 provided with downwardly-extending extremities anddetachably secured to said handle, the transverse shafts mounted in saidframe extremities, the cutting-disks lO revoluble on one of. said shaftsand the cut-tingdisks ll having a greater diameter than said disks l0and revolubly mounted on the other one of said shafts and arranged inrelation to said disks l0 as shown,P substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony whereoll I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing Witnesses.

BERTHA J. NEUENSGHWANDER.

Witnesses:

CLEMENTINA GRUBER, EMMA A. WALTEMATH.

